2027 Season Announcement Party
Find out about the 9 great shows The Vortex Theatre will bring you in 2027. Food, Fun, Refreshments 6:30 pm - 9 pm
Upcoming Shows
The Motherf**ker with the Hat
With heightened and relentless dialog, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat follows Jackie, a recently paroled ex-con and recovering addict whose fragile new life teeters when he finds an unfamiliar hat in his girlfriend Veronica’s apartment. The discovery...
Antigone
After Oedipus ' self-exile, his sons Eteocles and Polynices engage in a civil war for the Theban throne, which results in both brothers dying while fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law and new Theban ruler Creon orders the public honoring of Eteocles and the public...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Picasso at the Lapin Agile features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile (French: "Nimble Rabbit") in Montmartre, Paris. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein...
Review: COME FROM AWAY at Musical Theatre Southwest
Come From Away is the true story of the 38 planes and their passengers that were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland the morning of September 11, 2001. The United States closed the airspace for the first time in history and all planes coming from Europe were forced to land in Gander, a town of ab…
Review: THE GUYS at Ironweed Productions At Teatro Paraguas
The story begins with Joan (Karen Leigh), a well to do mother and wife who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As she begins to tell her “where were you” account about that morning, I notice members of the audience nodding and nudging one another – if we were old enough to remember that…
Review: MEAN GIRLS at Albuquerque Little Theater
Mean Girls kicked off the 97th Season at ALT, an enormous accomplishment and impressive feat, especially at a time when the arts, and theater in particular, are so vastly underfunded and rely heavily on the support of individual donors and community supporters. …
Review: THREE TALL WOMEN at New Mexico Actors Lab
The play is presented in two acts. In Act 1, the scene is established: an elderly, wealthy woman (A) meets with a young lawyer (C) who has been sent to get A's affairs in order. Woman B, a nurse, gently cares for Woman A through moments of senility and vulnerability. C remains unimpressed and uninsp…
Review: BAD MEDICINE at Santa Fe Playhouse
Sometimes a show seems like it’s of the moment; the plot points and action hits just right for the time. Many times they become iconic parts of the canon for years to come, but some tend to feel like they miss the mark too quickly. Bad Medicine, which has its world premiere at the Santa Fe Playhou…
Review: LILI ELBE at Santa Fe Opera
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Review: Santa Fe Playhouse To Present CABARET
I won't post to X.Imagine my surprise and delight to view this musical through the fresh vision presented by Director Anna Hogan, cast and crew. Let’s begin with the basics, compliments of the Cabaret program:…
Review: THE DROWNING GIRLS at New Mexico Actors Lab
According to the Director’s note, The Drowning Girls is based on a true story. It tells the tale of three women who lived during the early half of the 20th century; all three were murdered by their husbands, drowned in their bathtubs. …
Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Musical Theatre Southwest
What did our critic think of SPRING AWAKENING at Musical Theatre Southwest?…
Review: OUT AT SEA at Theater Grottesco
What did our critic think of OUT AT SEA at Theater Grottesco?…
Past Shows
28 total · showing 21–28
Observe the Sons of Ulster, Marching towards the Somme
The play centers on the experiences of eight unionist Ulstermen who volunteer to serve in the 36th (Ulster) Division at the beginning of the First World War. The story is told in a nostalgic flashback from the viewpoint of the only surviving soldier of the eight (now an...
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged
All 40 of Shakespeare plays are performed by 3 men in this fast and fabulous romp.
New Mexico Shakespeare Festival
The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival presents Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost at the New Mexico Veterans' Memorial.
Guards at the Taj
Two guards watch over the building of the Taj Mahal, as a dark myth about its construction comes to life.
4 Guys Named Jose
A bilingual musical comedy celebrating the rich and vibrant history of Latin America.
Sleuth
The ultimate game of cat-and-mouse is played out between a celebrated mystery writer and his guest, a young rival who shares not only his love of diversion but also his wife.
Lysistrata
A comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual...
The Cripple Of Inishmaan
The Vortex entry in The Southwest Irish Theater Festival is a dark comedy in which a crippled Irish orphan is cast in a 1930`s era Hollywood documentary about the communities of the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland
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THE CRUCIBLE Adobe Theater (9/04-9/27) |
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Antigone Vortex Theatre (10/16-11/08) |
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Company New Mexico Actors Lab (11/19-12/20) |
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Three Tall Women New Mexico Actors Lab (8/27-9/13) PHOTOS |
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Mariachi Christmas Popejoy Hall (12/13-12/13) |
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Mamma Mia! Popejoy Hall (5/18-5/23) |
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& Juliet Popejoy Hall (11/03-11/08) |
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The Migrant Highway Albuquerque Museum (9/19-9/19) |
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Adobe Theater (12/04-12/20) |
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A Christmas Carol Popejoy Hall (12/11-12/11) |
